At the pace he played today, i thought he would be dead tired come the 65th minute. He was playing B2B instead of Matuidi. Up and down... won a ton of balls and scored a goal. Tireless. Pretty good technically too. Lasted at that pace for the entire 90 mins, which was stunning to me. Only other guy that does that is Matuidi lol.

Griezmann is another one. He was just outstanding for France these 2 games... best player on the pitch in both.

Have no idea where this lass obsession comes from. He got beat by khedira comfortably. Players like Kante,kyrchiowak,lass etc looking good with normal teams and doing a job of a lone DM in a ball dominant team like Madrid is completely different thing. None of them are better than Casemiro on the ball.... We need that technical player to replace him not another DM who won't fit in.

Lass has always been a quality player only had one problem, the mental part of his game was lacking, got that sorted looks much more in control, was surprised when I saw him playing for france last year.

It is undeniable our defensive efforts are shambles in midfield.Having someone such as lass would make things so much easier. Not many midfielders out there who are not only physical, but quick and agile too.

Such rarity is needed here. Like casemiro but lass is better both defensively and offensively. Kante is like a lass jr without the mental issues. To think i would see the day a proper dm in this day and age who is young is available.

Dunno about you marks but for me the summer priorities should be lass and kante.

Kante is not really a DM though, although he can play that position. He's more like Matuidi... he just runs and runs and runs. He was the one creating issues for Russia because he was crashing the box from the midfield repeatedly AND THEN running back to cover on defense for freakin 90 mins.

Lass would come up too... but like Motta does. Once the midfield had taken control and pushed the opponent back, Lass would then help on the attack. Shockingly, you can't take the ball away from him now. He's like a different player. He calmly moved the ball around under pressure.

@sportsczy wrote:Kante is not really a DM though, although he can play that position. He's more like Matuidi... he just runs and runs and runs. He was the one creating issues for Russia because he was crashing the box from the midfield repeatedly AND THEN running back to cover on defense for freakin 90 mins.

Lass would come up too... but like Motta does. Once the midfield had taken control and pushed the opponent back, Lass would then help on the attack. Shockingly, you can't take the ball away from him now. He's like a different player. He calmly moved the ball around under pressure.

Defensive b2b be more apt then. I speak more of his leicester games and he definitely plays like a proper dm more than a b2b mid imo. For france though he was excellent in both offense and defense.

Need to keep my hype on him down though. We aint getting him no matter how much sense it makes.

Yeah Ousmane is on absolute fire. The crazy thing is that he's only 18 and never played a single second of top flight footy until this season... yet he has 12 goals and 5 assists in 20 games for Rennes while picking up steam. His 0.60 ratio is second only to Ibra in Ligue 1.

Remember when i was raving about PSG's kids with Rabiot/Kingsley Coman??? He's that level of talent.

But I'm afraid it's too late... Bayern have been on him for a while. He would be wasted at Madrid anyhow.